The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. ~Somerset Maugham

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ~St. Augustine

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. ~Feodor Dostoevski

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb

The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. ~Doug Henning

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ~Marcel Proust

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ~Eng's Principle

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~Frank Crane

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~William James, The Principles of Psychology

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. ~Confucius, Analects

Habit with him was all the test of truth;
It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
~George Crabbe, The Borough

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. ~Horace Mann